About timing I would give you this tips...
1) Don't practice overslow it makes the excersice or whatever too dificult to play
2) Start at a confortable speed. I must be confortable so you can play cleanly and know exactly what are you doing.
3) The object of practice slow is to let your muscles memorize what they have to do acurately.
4) If you're making mistakes and you don't know that is te mistake you need to focus in discover the mistake, you have to do a non tempo execution looking alternatively different factors (hand positions, strenght applyied etc). If you don{t know what are you doing or why you're doing the metronome isn't going to help you a thing.
5)For deciding what are you going to tell you're muscles to do It must be something that you can razonably thing it{s going to work at full speed, the thing you do slow and fast must be the exactly same thing otherwise you're telling your body several different messages.
Hope it helps you.
About metronome fun there are a lot of stuff you can do specially with slow metronome settings. Some thing really stupid but ara actually pretty difficult, try to clap with your hands at the same time of the click, if you do that exactly the sound is going to sound doubled or merged the click and your hands. Try to do it a 40bpm and do it let say 20 stright times.
6)Remember that there's some kind of time passing between your mind ordering something and your hand actually doing, for example you can play slopy if you're still with your pick still planting on the string when the click happens. it{s the same as the clap excercise, the click should happen with the string realise.
7)Very difficult excercise bpm 40 play 1 against the beat then 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 then 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. If you{re ok with this then for the grous of 2 or bigger take one or more notes and replace them with silends so for example if you play 1 2 3 against click now play 1 silence 3. Must feel evenness in your mind and specially in your body.
8)To avoin slopinness must have everything prepared. One thing si cordination betwenn two hands. Given the fact that you are muting a string whit the left hand no mather how fast you play you must plant and feel the right hand on the string, you must be able too feel both hands in they propper place before start to apply preasure on strings.
9)One common ugly sound is when you dont mute a ringing string apropiately, let's say you're playing notes on open E, now your pick planting should be fast enough to mute the string with out making strang noices. This movement is really fast and you must achieve it smoothly even your playing 1 note against a click at 20bpm. If you use finger picking mute the string with your flesh not with your nails.
Have fun and let me know if this helps you.
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